The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-10-29

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Westminster, October -.
In the american Sentinel of October 22nd,
inst, appeared an article under the head "a
Card, !" signed by two gentlemen who say they
have been very Jealous temperance workers
in the past, and now give to the public their
reasons why they do not cooperate with the
so called Prohibition party.
lst 1--WE regard the methods adopted by
that party as unwise and impolitic at the pres
ent time, and seems to us to be the very means
which must necessarily defeat the object for
which we have been laboring."
End ''We must unite all the moral and re-
ligious sentiment of society, and then act as
the balance of power"
Have we not attempted this in our county,
and no one krows better than these two gentle
men that it ended in utter failure. You can
not get temperance Democrat to vote for
temperance men on the Republican ticket,
and rice reySa. But grant, for argument sake,
that you could elect temperance men from the
old parties to the law making body by this
method, could you Their, consistently, ask
them for temperance legislation? Could they,
consistently, give it? / answer no; not as
long as they hold their places by the votes of
those who favor the rum traffic. Now, in
order to make my reply short and argument
strong, will hand these two gentlemen over
to the late and much lamented John Is. Finch,
who is acknowledged to be head and shoulder
above every other temperance worker IN the
United States. He says; "For man to say
that he is a temperance man, and diligently
works for it, and then votes for parties which
stand for license was to his mind so gross an
inconsistency that it could only be relieved
from the character Of crime by an equally
o,ose Ignorance A PHoHfBITIONIsT
Middleburg, Nd, Oct. "a.
Mr.. Quincy l.. Morrow, of Baltimore, ad-
dressed a large number of citizens from the
portico of j. d. Haines, at Middleburg, on
Friday night, October DIST. He entertained
the larger part of his audience for an hour
upon the living question of the day, Prohibit
ton, and gave them sound logic and good
reasoning. His speech was well received,
except by very disorderly and drunken set
of so called men and boys. The scene was a
disgraceful one, and caused every good cItl-
zen, both women and men, to blush. The
scenes there enacted were stronger argument
in favor of prohibition than was Mr.. Morrow 5
speech, however good it was
Are these the representatives of the party
who tell us that they are the temperance party,
"only stick to it. God help us poor Prohi-
bitionists if we have to wait for this party to
give us temperance legislation. Many thanks
to the Union Bridge Eolian Band for their
excellent music, which added much to the
interest of the meeting.
AN OBSERVER.
In an article headed "a Card' in the
american Sentinel, of October y, and signed
by two self posing Temperance workers, two
reasons are given why these great lovers of
our cause refuse to support the Prohibition
Party in this campaign. First. 1--WE regard
the methods adopted by that party as unwise
and impolitic at the present time" Are the
good people of Carroll county to understand
by this that the question of Right does not
come into the discussion at all, but rather the
question only of policy and expectancy.
These conscientious Temperance men do not
and dare not deny that the principles of the
Prohibition party are in the Right, but simply
because they fear that such party movement
may cut off the chance of submission of a
constitutional amendment by the next Legs
lature, they refuse TO support the only true
Temperance party now before the people.
In this particular let me say, that what Po-
litical party refuses to place in its platform 1t
will never enact when placed in power. 1t is
seldom, indeed, that they enact promises
in their platform. Both the old parties were
petitioned in their late conventions to favor
in their platforms the proposed amendment.
Will they, when in power, grant what they
refused in convention. NereT, unless the
Temperance sentiment of the State combine
in solid body and poll such a vote for the
Prohibition party as will brighten these old
parties in the next Legislature into granting
the submission of this question.
Second, say they, all that has been accom-
plished for Temperance in the past has been by
uniting the moral and religious sentiment of
society, and then acting as balance of power
between the parties in electing Temperance
men to the law making body. By this method
success has been in maliy of the States such
as to fill liquor associations with terror and
dismay. This is the best definition of the
history and principles of the Prohibition party
we have ever seen or heard. Who held the
balance of power in 1884, that struck terror
and dismay to the liquor men and compelled
them to organize their forces as never before
organized The Prohibition party, with its
q, 700 voters in the State of New York.
In conclusion we advise these two good cit
liens, who are Temperance men, but who
love the Republican party much more than
the cause ofremperance and allow themselves
in trying hour like this to be used as tools
in the hands of the Republicans to defeat
Prohibition, to forever drop the claim of Tenn
perance men and let the world know them as
they are. Q. Q. NJ.
Baltimore, Nd, Oct q, 1887.